Global configuration for Vim?

[Kiki Novak]

Hi,

On a pristine FreeBSD installation, I just added the vim-lite package. Searching for the global vimrc configuration file, I found two.

1. /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc.sample
2. /usr/local/share/vim/vim80/vimrc_example.vim

I'm confused, since on my workstation running Slackware Linux there's only one single /usr/share/vim/vimrc file.

Anyway, I'm looking for the system-wide configuration file for Vim so I can add a handful of options not only for the toor/root user, but also for all common users. Which one would that be? And how comes there are two seemingly unrelated configuration files for Vim in FreeBSD?

Cheers,

Niki

 

[lme@]

Copy /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc.sample to /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc.

 

[SirDice]

When in doubt, consult the man pages:

       /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc                                      
                      System wide Vim initializations.

See vim(1).

 

[Kiki Novak]

Thanks guys. Though there seems to be a little problem. Here goes.

On a vanilla installation with the vim-lite package, there's already a /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc file, identical to /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc.sample. So I edit that file and add my handful of options in the hope that they will apply system-wide. Here's what the first stanzas of the default file look like:

if v:lang =~ "utf8$" || v:lang =~ "UTF-8$"
        set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
endif

let g:is_posix = 1
set nocompatible
set bs=indent,eol,start
set history=50
set ruler

if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
        syntax on
        set hlsearch
endif

Now I'm adding my own options in between these stanzas, as I do on my Slackware workstation.

if v:lang =~ "utf8$" || v:lang =~ "UTF-8$"
        set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
endif

let g:is_posix = 1
set nocompatible
set bs=indent,eol,start
set history=50
set ruler

colorscheme elflord
set textwidth=79
set scrolloff=15
set autoindent
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab
set modeline modelines=2

if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
        syntax on
        set hlsearch
endif

Now here's the weird thing. The very first option colorscheme elflord is taken into account... but all the other options have strictly no effect.

On the other hand, when I create a ~/.vimrc file and put these options into it, they all work.

So how comes system-wide options in that file don't work? I'm puzzled.